Goodbye and Hello

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After Excite@home declared bankruptcy last year, Comcast Cable Communications was one of the vendors that picked up the slack by launching its own internet service, Comcast High-Speed Internet. As it moved former @home users over to its new network, it kept the @home servers up and running. That comes to an end tonight.

"We will complete the transition from @home to our own network tonight," says Tim Fitzpatrick, Director of Corporate Communications for Comcast. "It's been a rolling transition. We've been migrated 50,000 subscribers every other day since late December."

During the transition period, subscribers retained access to @Home e-mail. They also received new e-mail addresses for Comcast's network, changing from [username]@Home.com to [username]@Comcast.net in an effort to preserve the portion of each address unique to each subscriber.

Comcast continues to make moves in the market, too. This week, it announced a deal with United Online, the value-priced Internet service provider that owns the NetZero and Juno services. The deal allows Comcast to offer its customers a choice of ISPs, and it lets United Online offer broadband access for the first time.

Comcast Corporation is the third largest cable operator in the US, with more than 8.4 million subscribers. Comcast's ISP has more than 950,000 customers nationwide. United Online's NetZero and Juno Online Services have 5.6 million active dial-up users, 1.46 million of which are billable subscribers.

A Google search today found the following message on excite@home's job listing page: "Thank you for your interest in employment with Excite@Home. Effective February 28, 2002, Excite@Home is discontinuing its operations and as a result, has no jobs."